and dubbed the next david attenborough, a conservationist kid meets one of his biggest heros. hello and welcome to bbc news. teachers are calling for more children in england to be urgently given free school meals in order to support families struggling with the cost of living. they say the programme should be expanded to include all families who receive universal credit. in a letter to ministers, uniions are warning that more than two and a half million children live in households that miss meals or struggle to access healthy food and insist now is the right moment to act. alice key reports. lunch is served at this half term holiday club in stockport. staff here are responsible for keeping 20 children a day fed and entertained. but as rising prices start to hit parents pockets, there are fears that without more support, children could go hungry. we know that a lot of the families who come here are living in food poverty. and have certainly been impacted since the cost o
on various different things. you know, parking cost us another 150 quid. i ll probably never see any of that back from easyjet. so i m just hugely disappointed by how they handled this whole situation and the position they put their customer services people here into. oh, the money and the disappointment, isn t it? easyjet have preemptively had to cancel about 240 half term flights, in their words, in order to be able to provide a reliable service. in other words, not enough staff, as well as it and air traffic control issues. ba, tui and vueling have also had to make cancellations and airlines are facing criticism. they were given furlough support over the pandemic to keep staff on and these big getaway pinch periods have been in the diary well in advance so why are they still not able to cope? it s important to recognize this is notjust a uk problem. this is happening in many parts of the world. we ve heard in the last few days about dublin airport and amsterdam close to home, but
flight anywhere for three days. it s not just. .. flight anywhere for three days. it s notjust. i m sure i will get the holiday money back but it is also the fact that we spent 200 quid on a hotel last night, we spent 100 quid on a meal last night and probably another 150 this morning on various different things. parking gusts another 150 quid, different things. parking gusts another150 quid, i different things. parking gusts another 150 quid, i will probably never see any of that back from easyjet. the parking cost us. i am hugely disappointed in how they handled this whole situation and the position they put their customer services people here into. it’s position they put their customer services people here into. it s the money and services people here into. it s the money and the services people here into. it s the money and the disappointment. l easyjet have pre emptively had to cancel about 240 half term flights. in their words, in order to be able to provide a reliable